Self-Reflection Questions:

  1. What assumptions did you make at the beginning of the activity that may have affected your interpretation of the fossil?

  2. What features of science does this activity represent?

  3. How do you think this is typical of what a scientist might do with creating and revising a hypothesis? Did you follow this procedure?

  4. What kind of information helped you when you received the resource pictures?

  5. How is it possible for scientists to study events/organisms that happened millions of years ago?